Miami Masters: Nava beats Isner in two tiebreaks, to play Fritz in second round
The American wild card defeated Isner 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) to move into the second round of the Masters Series event
Wildcard Emilio Nava reached the second round of the Miami Masters by beating American veteran John Isner 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday night.
Nava, aged 21 and ranked No 182 in the world, will face No 9 seed Taylor Fritz next.
Miami Masters, other first-round matches (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8,800,000):
- Ugo Humbert beat Gael Monfils: 3-3 ret.
- Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) beat Fabio Fognini: 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
- Yibing Wu beat Kyle Edmund: 7-5, 7-5
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Nuno Borges (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Dusan Lajovic beat Andy Murray: 6-4, 7-5
- Ilya Ivashka beat Daniel Altmaier (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- J.J. Wolf beat Alexander Bublik: 7-5, 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin beat Mikael Ymer: 7-6 (5), 4-4 ret.
- Laslo Djere beat Aleksandar Vukic (Q): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Guido Pella beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Marton Fucsovics beat Pedro Cachin: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Facundo Bagnis beat Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (Q): 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
- Taro Daniel (WC) beat Arthur Rinderknech: 4-1 ret.
- Marc-Andrea Huesler beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas: 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-3
- Brandon Nakashima beat Oscar Otte: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Dominic Thiem
- Pavel Kotov vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Gregoire Barrere vs. Roman Safiullin
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Zizou Bergs
- Richard Gasquet vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Thiago Monteiro vs. Jason Kubler
- Yosuke Watanuki vs. Benoit Paire
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
- Alex Molcan vs. Jordan Thompson
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Denis Kudla
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Juncheng Shang
- Marcos Giron vs. Cristian Garin
- Federico Coria vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Jaume Munar
- Pedro Martinez vs. Quentin Halys
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